ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a ...
FARGO — The temperature in Nome, Alaska, reached 44 degrees Dec. 11. This is the warmest temperature recorded in Nome during the month of December on record; a record that dates back well over 100 ...
Nome, western Alaska's largest community, had about 1,400 residents a century ago. Its most recent supply ship arrived the previous fall, before the Bering Sea froze, without any doses of the ...